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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by p_ing on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:27AM (#43856794)
The Office Startup Assistant was a thing and did improve startup times. I'm not sure where you're making up this rumour stuff from.

https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Microsoft_K...

> The OSA initializes the shared code that is used by the Office 97 programs. The benefit of using the OSA to initialize shared code is that the Office 97 programs start faster.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by mike_hearn on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:47PM (#43860187)
That app didn't fully load the Office apps despite the name, and if you removed it Office 97 still started way faster than its competitors. As it did on Linux.

The rumours were (that I remember) that Microsoft had a secret/invisible way to hook Office into Windows startup. Otherwise, how did it start so much faster than StarOffice, which appeared to have similar functionality.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by p_ing on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:29PM (#43860732)
Was it not obvious from what I posted that it didn't load the "entire" application? These solutions generally don't do that.
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